Organization in The Oz Series

underground_traveling_party

Also known as the little party of strangers, the new arrivals, our travelers, our little party of travelers, our travellers, our adventurers, the defenders, the prisoners, the wanderers, the children and the Wizard, the eager watchers.

The stranded surface-world fellowship - Dorothy, the ranch boy Zeb, the cab-horse Jim, the kitten Eureka, and the humbug Wizard of Oz - who were delivered out of the Underground World to the Emerald City by Ozma's Magic Belt. In this closing chapter the fellowship is dissolved: Ozma's Magic Belt sends Dorothy and Eureka home to Kansas and returns Zeb and Jim to Hugson's Ranch in California, while the Wizard alone stays behind to live among the people of Oz.

Appears in 16 chapters, first in chapter 71, last in chapter 89.

What the story establishes

Relationships

• enemy of → Gargoyles ch. 81
  The stranded surface-world fellowship and the wooden Gargoyles are locked in open hostility: after a pitched battle the Gargoyles overpower and capture the whole party, who nonetheless steal wings and flee, leaving the two sides in active enmity.
• located in → Palace of Oz ch. 83
  Lifted out of the underground prison by the Magic Belt, the whole fellowship arrives in the Emerald City and is drawn into the courtyard of the royal palace of Oz, the jeweled gates opening to receive them.
• located in → City of Emeralds ch. 86
  The surface-world fellowship's downward-and-onward journey ends at the Emerald City, where Ozma proclaims a citywide holiday in the visitors' honor and parades them through the streets.
• provides service ← the people of Voe ch. 77
  The invisible family at the cottage offers the hungry travelers a meal already laid on their table, inviting Dorothy, Zeb, and the Wizard to sit and eat.
• imprisoned by → Gargoyles (ended) ch. 81
  The traveling party (Dorothy, Zeb, the Wizard, Jim, and Eureka) is imprisoned by the Gargoyles, who shut them inside a doorless, windowless wooden tower with only a high roof-opening and fly away, leaving them captive.
• captures ← Gargoyles (ended) ch. 81
  After the travelers' revolvers, sword, and improvised weapons failed to stop them, the Gargoyles swarmed and wound their wooden arms around Zeb, the Wizard, Dorothy, Jim, and Eureka, capturing the entire party.
• threatens ← Mangaboos (ended) ch. 75
  The Mangaboo Princess and her people decree that the meat-people party does not belong in the Land of the Mangaboos and must be destroyed — the humans thrown into the Garden of the Twining Vines and the animals cast into the Black Pit.
• rescues ← Ozma (ended) ch. 83
  Answering Dorothy's four-o'clock signal, Ozma puts on the Nome King's Magic Belt and wishes the entire stranded fellowship out of their escape-proof underground cave, transporting Dorothy and Eureka first and then the horse, the boy, the Wizard and the piglets to the Emerald City.
• threatens ← the man with the star (ended) ch. 73
  The Prince declares that the strangers must be destroyed within minutes for trespassing inside the earth, dismissing their pleas and hunger, and orders them to follow him to meet their doom.
• rescues ← the people of Voe (ended) ch. 78
  An unseen girl of Voe rescues the travelers from the bears by pulling up a broad-leaved plant and telling them to rub its leaves on their feet so they can walk on the river, where the bears will not follow.
• member of ← Dorothy (ended) ch. 83–89
  Dorothy is the pivotal member of the fellowship whose ties to Oz save the whole party: alone among them she holds the standing rescue arrangement with Ozma, and it is her signal and her power over the Magic Belt that delivers all of her companions from the cave.
• includes → Dorothy (ended) ch. 71–89
  Dorothy is a member of the stranded fellowship that fell into the underground world.
• imprisoned by ← Gargoyles (ended) ch. 81
  The Gargoyles flew the captured party to a wooden city and pushed them onto a high platform inside a windowless, doorless tower-house used as a jail, leaving them stranded far above the ground.
• located in → Land of the Mangaboos (ended) ch. 72–73
  The stranded fellowship, driven in Zeb's buggy, arrives at the glass palace in the center of the Mangaboo city and is brought before the Prince and Sorcerer, placing the whole party within the Land of the Mangaboos.
• defies → Mangaboos (ended) ch. 75
  The party resists the Mangaboo death-sentence: the Wizard uses his lantern-and-kerosene fire trick to scorch the Princess's advisors and save the humans, while Jim and Eureka fight back against the thorn-bearing crowd driving them toward the Black Pit.
• defies → Mangaboos (ended) ch. 76
  Sentenced to be entombed in the Black Pit by the Mangaboos, the reunited fellowship refuses to die there and instead escapes their sealed prison by following the tunnel up through the glass mountain and out of the Mangaboo country.
• includes → Oz (ended) ch. 74–89
  The Wizard of Oz becomes a working member of the stranded party: he rides in the buggy with Dorothy and Zeb, calls them 'my friends', schemes with them to survive the Prince, and shares their lodging in the House of the Sorcerer.
• warns ← the people of Voe (ended) ch. 78
  An unseen person of Voe warns the traveling party that bears are near and cautions them to be careful, then instructs them how to escape onto the river.
• rescues → the Royal Princess (ended) ch. 74
  The party (the Wizard and Dorothy) pick the ripe Royal Princess from the Royal Bush, freeing her from the Prince's selfish suppression; she thanks them and, once crowned, declares they came to her rescue.
• persuades → the Royal Princess (ended) ch. 75
  The Wizard, as the party's champion, convinces the Princess through his fire 'test' that her advisors counseled her wrongly, so she spares the three humans from the Garden of the Clinging Vines.
• possesses → the wooden wings (ended) ch. 81–82
  The party gains the escape device of the arc: by having Zeb and Eureka raid a sleeping Gargoyles' dwelling, they acquire eight of the detachable wooden wings, which they fasten to Jim and the buggy to fly away toward the distant rock archway.
• includes → Zeb (ended) ch. 71–89
  Zeb, the ranch boy driving the buggy, is a member of the stranded fellowship.
• includes → Eureka (ended) ch. 71–89
  Eureka the kitten, carried in Dorothy's bird-cage, is a member of the fellowship stranded underground.
• confronts → Gargoyles (ended) ch. 80
  Emerging from the spiral stairway at the top of Pyramid Mountain, the surface-world fellowship as a whole collides with the Gargoyle populace of the wooden Land of Naught: the party stands its ground rather than retreat down the stairs, and Jim, the Wizard, and Zeb collectively fight off the swarming wooden creatures. This is the arc-level collision the chapter fragments into per-member combat.
• deceives → Gargoyles (ended) ch. 81
  While the Gargoyles slept, the party quietly stole wings from a neighboring house and rigged their own escape without waking their captors, slipping away before the wooden folk discovered the theft.
• confronts ← Gargoyles (ended) ch. 81
  Once the escaping prisoners fly off on the stolen wings, the Gargoyles muster a great band and give chase across the sky, renewing their hostile pursuit of the fugitives.
• accuses ← Gwig (ended) ch. 72
  The thorny Sorcerer Gwig interrogates the newly-arrived fellowship, accusing them of wickedly sending the Rain of Stones that cracked and broke the Mangaboo houses and demanding they prove their innocence.
• includes → Jim (ended) ch. 71–89
  Jim, the old cab-horse pulling the buggy, fell with the party and is one of its members.
• located in → Land of Naught (ended) ch. 80–82
  Climbing to the top of the long spiral stairway, the traveling party emerges from the rocky stairway onto a broad platform in the wooden Country of the Gargoyles, a land of sawdust ground, wooden trees, wooden animals, and wooden people.
• defies → Land of the Mangaboos (ended) ch. 76
  The fellowship escapes the Land of the Mangaboos altogether, travelling up the mountain tunnel away from the Vegetable Kingdom until it emerges into an entirely new country.
• located in → the Black Pit (ended) ch. 76–77
  The whole fellowship is entombed together in the Black Pit after the Wizard, Dorothy and Zeb are driven inside to join the imprisoned animals and the Mangaboos wall up the entrance.
• located in → the glass city (ended) ch. 71–73
  The stranded party floats down into and is detained within the underground glass city.
• accuses ← the man with the star (ended) ch. 71
  The man with the star charges the newly arrived party with causing the Rain of Stones that damaged the glass city and threatens to hold them responsible.
• confronts ← the man with the star (ended) ch. 72
  The Prince (the man with the star) presides over the fellowship's hearing in the domed hall, summoning his Sorcerer to judge the intruders and treating the arrived party as suspects responsible for the damage to his city.
• communicates with ← the people of Voe (ended) ch. 77
  The unseen people of Voe converse with the arriving travelers from an invisible cottage, explaining who they are, the nature of the Valley of Voe, and the danger of the invisible bears.
• ally of → the Royal Princess (ended) ch. 74–75
  The party gambles on the new Princess as their advocate against the heartless Prince: the Wizard reasons that once picked she will be Ruler 'and may treat us better than that heartless Prince intends to', kneeling to salute her Royal Highness.
• located in → the vast cave of the dragonettes (ended) ch. 82–83
  After escaping the Gargoyles and struggling up a winding rocky tunnel, the travelers arrive in a vast, circular cavern with a smooth level floor that turns out to be the dragonettes' cave.
• located in → Valley of Voe (ended) ch. 77–78
  The traveling party emerges from the glass mountain tunnel into the Valley of Voe, admires its deserted beauty, loses the piglets to invisibility, and is welcomed by an invisible family for lunch while being warned about the valley's bears.
• member of ← Zeb (ended) ch. 89
  Zeb of Hugson's Ranch is a member of the traveling party; feeling that he and Jim do not belong in fairyland, he leaves it and is returned by Ozma's magic to Hugson's Ranch in California, contributing to the party's dissolution.
• threatens ← dragonettes (ended) ch. 82
  The dragonettes tell the travelers they would love to eat them and would make a mouthful of them in a wink if they came near, though their tied tails prevent them from actually reaching the party.
• member of ← Eureka (ended) ch. 89
  Eureka the kitten is a member of the surface-world party; disgraced after the piglet trial, she departs the Land of Oz together with Dorothy for Kansas as the party breaks up.
• fears → Gargoyles (ended) ch. 79
  The party climbs knowingly toward the Land of the Gargoyles, warned by a sign at the stair's foot and dreading the creatures that killed even the Champion Overman-Anu's account.
• confronts → Gargoyles (ended) ch. 82
  The Wizard and Zeb tear off their borrowed wooden wings and burn them along with cavern doors in a barrier fire just as the pursuing army of Gargoyles arrives at the cave entrance, driving the wooden creatures back in fear.
• used against → Gargoyles (ended) ch. 82
  The underground traveling party deploys a barrier fire against the pursuing Gargoyle army at the cavern mouth—burning their borrowed wooden wings and the mountain's wooden doors—driving the wooden creatures back in fear and sealing off pursuit.
• member of ← Jim (ended) ch. 89
  Jim the cab-horse is a member of the surface-world party; longing to leave ever since losing the race, he is returned with Zeb to Hugson's Ranch as the party disbands.
• member of ← Oz (ended) ch. 89
  The Wizard travelled with the surface-world party out of the Underground World; unlike the others he remains behind in the Emerald City when the party disbands, bidding Dorothy farewell as she departs for Kansas.
• located in → Pyramid Mountain (ended) ch. 79–80
  After racing across the open Valley to escape more bears, Jim gallops the buggy and its riders all the way to the foot of the Pyramid Mountain, where the party arrives at chapter's end.
• trades with → the braided man (ended) ch. 79
  Halfway up the mountain the party barters with the Braided Man: Dorothy gives him a blue hair-ribbon and in return he insists the Wizard take the box of flutters and Dorothy the box of rustles.
• located in → the House of the Sorcerer (ended) ch. 74–77
  On the Wizard's plan the party takes possession of the dead Sorcerer's House as their dwelling in the glass city, driving the buggy into the domed hall and lying down to sleep on its glass benches.
• communicates with ← the people of Voe (ended) ch. 78
  The unseen family hosting the travelers converses with them at length over dinner, explaining life in the Valley of Voe, the invisibility caused by the dama-fruit, the danger of the bears, and the route over the Pyramid Mountain toward the Land of Naught.
• located in → the underground cave prison (ended) ch. 83
  The stranded surface-world fellowship (Dorothy, Zeb, Jim, Eureka, and the Wizard) climbed the long upward tunnel and reached the small dead-end cave with the ray of sunshine, where they were trapped until Ozma's Magic Belt removed them to the Emerald City.
• warns ← Jim (ended) ch. 80
  After peeking above the last stair and seeing the wooden Country of the Gargoyles, Jim warns the others that the place is dangerous, dead, and unfit for real creatures, and urges them to turn back.
• communicates with → the braided man (ended) ch. 79
  The party questions the Braided Man about his factory and his history, and he recounts to them the absurd tale of how he fell down his own Adjustable Post-hole into the mountain.
• warns ← the people of Voe (ended) ch. 77
  The invisible people of Voe warn the travelers that fierce, invisible bears roam the Valley of Voe and will catch and eat anyone they can find, including Jim the horse since he cannot fight.
• located in → the public gardens (ended) ch. 73–74
  The traveling party is led by the Prince through the planting-ground and into the enclosed folk gardens to observe the Mangaboos' growth and the Royal Bush, before being condemned to destruction there.

From the text

The little party of strangers now followed the Prince across a few more of the glass bridges and along several paths until they came to a garden enclosed by a high hedge.Chapter 73

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